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Anna And The King Of Siam

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Anna And The King Of Siam
(1946) [G]


In 1862, young English widow Anna Owens accepts the job of teaching the royal children of Siam. On her arrival in Bangkok, culture clash is immediate. The king respects Anna for standing up to him, though this appalls his courtiers. In due course, she becomes the king's confidant and diplomatic...  More


 
The Remains Of The Day

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The Remains Of The Day
(1993) [G]


Following the success of HOWARD'S END, Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson reunited with the acclaimed Merchant Ivory filmmaking team and teamed with a stellar support cast that included James Fox, Christopher Reeve and Hugh Grant for this extraordinary, moving story of blind devotion and repressed...  More


 
Mansfield Park (BBC) (2 Disc Set)

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Mansfield Park (BBC) (2 Disc Set)
(1983) [G]


When Sir Thomas Bertram takes in the 9-year-old daughter of an impoverished relative, his wife has someone to bully. Never allowed to forget her good fortune, Fanny's good nature and fortitude finally win her a valued place in the household and the man of her dreams. Anna Massey heads the cast of...  More


 
Emma (1972)

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Emma (1972)
(1972) [G]


This BBC production, set in the small town of Highbury, depicts the often hilarious attempts of Miss Emma Woodhouse to make proper marital matches for all of her friends. Though often mistaken in her judgement, she is counselled and criticised by her neighbor and brother-in-law, the wise Mr....  More


 
Anna Karenina (1935)

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Anna Karenina (1935)
(1935) [PG]


Count Leo Tolstoy's ill-fated heroine Anna Karenina, who suffers the pains of doomed love. Set in the reign of Czar Nicholas 1st of Russia.  More


 
The French Lieutenant's Woman

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The French Lieutenant's Woman
(1981) [M]


Oscar® winners Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons star as two separate pairs of lovers in this "jarring, engaging [and] beautifully visualized" film (Leonard Maltin). Embraced by audiences and critics alike - and garnering five 1981 Academy Award® nominations, including Best Actress (Streep) - The...  More


 
Jane Eyre (1944)

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Jane Eyre (1944)
(1944) [PG]


Small, plain and poor, Jane Eyre comes to Thornfield Hall as governess to the young ward of Edward Rochester. Denied love all her life, Jane can't help but be attracted to the intelligent, vibrant, energetic Mr. Rochester, a man twice her age. But just when Mr. Rochester seems to be returning the...  More


 
The Lover

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The Lover
(1992) [R]


The Lover is director Jean-Jacques Annaud's adaptation of Marguerite Duras' minimalist 1984 novel. Set in French Indochina in 1929, the film explores the erotic charge of forbidden love. Jane March plays a French teenager sent to a Saigon boarding school, while Tony Leung is a 32-year Chinese...  More


 
The Picture Show Man

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The Picture Show Man
(1977) [G]


A warm and witty comedy set in the 20s, The Picture Show Man chronicles the adventures of Maurice Pym (John Meillon), a flamboyant showman traveling the Aussie outback unreeling silent films. Braving much hardship and heartbreak along the way, Pym soon clashes with rival showman Palmer - a...  More


 
Les Enfants Du Paradis (Children Of Paradise)

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Les Enfants Du Paradis (Children Of Paradise)
(1945) [PG]


Poetic realism reaches sublime heights in this ineffably witty tale of a woman loved by four different men. Deftly entwining theater, literature, music and design, director Marcel Carne and screenwriter Jacques Prevert resurrect the tumultuous world of 19th-century Paris, teeming with hucksters...  More


 
Maurice

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Maurice
(1987) [M]


E.M. Forster's (A Room with a View, Howard's End) story, set in pre-World War I England, studies a theme few period pieces dare mention--a young man's struggle with his homosexuality. It is the coming of age for two young men who meet at Cambridge and fall in love. Maurice (James Wilby) and Clive...  More


 
Playing Beatie Bow

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Playing Beatie Bow
(1986) [G]


In modern-day (1985) Sydney, Australia, teen-aged Abigail discovers that she can communicate with at least one apparently dead person, who lived in that town back in 1873. As their communications continue, Abigail suddenly finds herself transported back in time. In this light drama, based on a...  More


 
Howard's End (25th anniversary, 4K restoration edition)

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Howard's End (25th anniversary, 4K restoration edition)
(1992) [G]


From Merchant Ivory, the team that brought us A Room With A View and Maurice, also based on Forster's novels, comes this masterful adaptation of Howard's End. A story of two families who are drawn together by extraordinary circumstances in spite of their vastly differing backgrounds and...  More


 
The Private Lives Of Elizabeth And Essex

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The Private Lives Of Elizabeth And Essex
(1939) [G]


Director Michael Curtiz's period drama frames the tumultuous affair between Queen Elizabeth I (Bette Davis) and the man who would be King of England, Robert Devereux (Errol Flynn), the Earl of Essex. Ever the victor on the battlefield, Devereux returns to London after defeating Spanish forces at...  More


 
Pelle The Conqueror

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Pelle The Conqueror
(1988) [M]


Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Picture, this epic drama about human resilience stars the hypnotic Max Von Sydow as a poor, but never downtrodden widower who emigrates with his young son, Pelle, from the economically depressed Sweden to Denmark at the turn of the century. His...  More


 
The African Queen

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The African Queen
(1951) [G]


Adapted from a novel by C.S. Forester, The African Queen stars Humphrey Bogart in his Oscar-winning portrayal of Charlie Aunt - the slovenly, gin-swilling captain of a tramp steamer called The African Queen, which ships supplies to small East African villages during World War I. Katharine Hepburn...  More


 
The Go-Between

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The Go-Between
(1970) [PG]


Summer 1900: Queen Victoria's last and the summer Leo turns 13. He's the guest of Marcus, a wealthy classmate, at a grand home in rural Norfolk. Leo is befriended by Marian, Marcus's twenty-something sister, a beauty about to be engaged to Hugh, a viscount and good fellow. Marian buys Leo a...  More


 
Heat And Dust

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Heat And Dust
(1983) [M]


The passion, violence, mystery and beauty of India are rapturously evoked in Merchant Ivory Productions' acclaimed Heat And Dust, based on the novel by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, the Oscar-winning screenwriter and novelist. Blending east with west, and moving effortlessly between the vibrant world of...  More


 
Chinatown

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Chinatown
(1974) [M]


A landmark movie in the film noir tradition, Roman Polanski's Chinatown stands as a true screen classic. Jack Nicholson is private eye Jake Gittes, living off the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-war Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite (Faye Dunaway) to investigate her...  More


 
Oliver Twist

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Oliver Twist
(1948) [G]


David Lean's atmospheric production remains the definitive version of the Charles Dickens' masterpiece. Orphan Oliver Twist (John Howard Davies) is expelled from the work house where he lives by the miserly Mr.Bumble (Francis L.Sullivan) for daring to ask for more. After an unhappy apprenticeship...  More


 
The Night Heaven Fell

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The Night Heaven Fell
(1957) [PG]


Ursula leaves the convent where she was educated, to start living with her uncle, the count Ribera, and her aunt Florentine. When she arrives, a young man from the village, Lambert, whose sister took her own life, accuses the count of being responsible for his sister's death, for having sexually...  More


 
Dangerous Liaisons

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Dangerous Liaisons
(1988) [M]


Set in France around 1760-1770. The Marquise de Merteuil needs a favour from her ex-lover, Vicomte de Valmont. One Marquise de Merteuil's ex-lover, Gercourt, is planning on marrying a young, virtuos, woman called Cecile de Volanges. The Marquise would like Valmont to seduce Cecile before her...  More


 
A Passage To India

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A Passage To India
(1984) [PG]


Oscar-winning story of the social friction between the British and Indian communities, which clash dramatically when an Indian befriended by two visiting English women is accused of raping one during a trip to the remote Marabar caves.  More


 
A Room With A View

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A Room With A View
(1985) [PG]


A Room With A View features an incomparable cast which includes Denholm Elliott, Maggie Smith, Judi Dench, Daniel Day – Lewis, Helena Bonham Carter and Julian Sands. A Room With A View tells of Lucy Honeychurch, a beautiful young English girl abroad, whose emotions are rocked when she witnesses...  More


 
My Mother's Castle (Le Chateau De Ma Mere)

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My Mother's Castle (Le Chateau De Ma Mere)
(1990) [G]


Part 2 of the popular French classics based on author Marcel Pagnol's childhood memoirs. In 'La Gloire De Mon Pere' Marcel looks back at a perfect summer spent as a child in a cottage at the foot of the Provence Mountains. In 'Le Chateau De Ma Mere' Marcel remembers his family's trip to the...  More


 
Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves

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Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves
(1991) [PG]


After being captured by Turks during the Crusades, Robin of Locksley and a Moor, Azeem, escape back to England where Azeem vows to remain until he repays Robin for saving his life. Meanwhile, Robin's father has been murdered by the Sheriff of Nottingham and when Robin returns home he vows to...  More


 
The Hidden Fortress

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The Hidden Fortress
(1958) [PG]


The story follows two greedy peasants in feudal Japan, Tahei and Matashichi, who are returning home from a failed attempt to profit from a war between neighboring clans. En Route they encounter the remnants of the defeated tribe that consists, most notably, of a famous General and a Princess who...  More


 
Dust

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Dust
(2001)


At the turn of the last century in the American West, two brothers fall in love with the same woman. Lilith chooses the younger brother, Elijah (Joseph Fiennes, Shakespeare In Love). The embittered Luke (David Wenham, The Bank; Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers) travels alone to Europe. His...  More


 
The Samurai: Volume 4

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The Samurai: Volume 4
(1962) [PG]


The Hunter Ninja Kogento enables an expert rifleman to do away with Shintaro. Mystic Bridge Shintaro offers to escort some fugitives from the Koga ninja into Kofu though this means he will have to walk back towards his enemies who are pursuing him. Star Jumper While searching for a secret...  More


 
Caddie

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Caddie
(1976) [M]


Joan Long's screenplay tells of a fiercely independent young mother who when confronted with her husband's infidelity, takes her children and leaves their comfortable middle class surroundings behind, to fend for herself. Without skills, and faced with the responsibility of housing and feeding...  More


 
 
 

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